Sentences with phrase «school counterparts»

The case alleges the way the state funds charter schools is unconstitutional because less money is allocated per student than to their traditional public school counterparts.

As you might be aware, even though charter schools are public schools, we are not funded equally as our traditional public district school counterparts.

For men in some fields of study, the earnings return would not be as high as a woman over her high school counterparts.

Public school students have more classroom access to the information highway than their private school counterparts, a federal report released last week says.

Private pupils were ahead of their state school counterparts at ages four, eight, 10 and 16, the study found.

The latest survey found that teachers worked 59 hours and 20 minutes on average, while their secondary school counterparts worked almost 56 hours.

This does not mean that students are not inspired to learn just as much if not more than their public school counterparts do.

Most live driving schools are launching their own online driving school counterpart as an answer to the changing demands of new drivers to learn how to drive.

Because children in these grades are still developing foundational skills, their teachers need preparation that is different from what is required of their late - elementary school counterparts.

Like their medical school counterparts, veterinarians often choose to pursue a residency in a specialty after receiving their degrees.

However, weaker secondary schools are not improving at the same rate as their primary school counterparts and too many are declining.

They teach for less than their public school counterparts because their sense of professional efficacy is greater.

Private school principals report more influence over curriculum than their public school counterparts report.

An interesting trend is happening when it comes to boarding school salaries, which have typically been lower than their day school counterparts.

On eighth - grade reading and math tests, charter - school students performed worse than their public - school counterparts by enormous margins — 2 to 3 standard deviations.

Although charter schools are public schools, we do not get the same funding as our traditional public district school counterparts.

It follows calls from the government for the independent sector to step up and provide more support to their state school counterparts — or face losing their charitable status.

The report found poor oversight when it came to ensuring accurate student attendance, dramatically lower test scores than their traditional public school counterparts and difficulty accessing technology.

They found that, initially, charter - school parents rated their children's schools more highly than their public - school counterparts did.

They may have any of the following: Live driving school counterpart, parent - taught practical driving, or additional driver's training school.

Charter school students in Georgia outperformed their traditional school counterparts in reading, but not math, and overall, only 4 percent of public school students attend charters.

On average, Black students attending charters outperform their district school counterparts on state tests.

Among students eligible for free or reduced - price lunches, public school 4th graders outperformed their charter school counterparts in reading and math.

San Diego County's charter schools had average student achievement gains of 21 points, compared to six points for their non-charter school counterparts.

Student mathematicians got in the March Mathness spirit last week, as Upper School students competed in a math tournament while their Middle School counterparts participated in a mathematical scavenger hunt

It found that the majority of students who attend virtual charter schools are low - achieving; they are also more likely to be designated as special education and more likely to have repeated a prior grade than their traditional brick - and - mortar school counterparts.

In fact, public charters are doing better than their district school counterparts at getting these at - risk students to graduate, as can be seen in data from the 2008 high school cohort (students graduating four years later and released in 2013).

They also said that while California students, on average, did much worse in math in their first year in a charter school, they outperformed their traditional public school counterparts after two years.

At the top of that list is the fact that counselors in public high schools report spending only 22 percent of their time on college - related counseling while their private school counterparts spend a far healthier 55 percent, according to the National Association for College Admission Counseling.

At the turn of the 20th century, for example, Catholic school leaders refused to follow their public school counterparts into a vocational and utilitarian tracking system.

In a sense, the IB's programs express the effort to nurture both ambitions: the Diploma Program along with its pre-secondary school counterparts embody the rigors of classical education, including the arts and sciences and mathematics, languages, and independent writing projects; at the same time the IB has developed career programs for students focused on more immediate employment.

To quote from a famous interview given by James Coleman, cited in this book, «Catholic high schools educate students better than public schools do... students drop out four times more often than their Catholic school counterparts.»

While they had a jumpstart on their Victorian school counterparts, the Whitefriars staff did encounter some hurdles on their journey.

Like their Upper School counterparts, Lower School students will have music class every day, but their music class will be vocal rather than instrumental — they will sing and move!

Charters outperform their district school counterparts year after year in both math and English.

In terms of transition to postsecondary, more students reported having a post-high school plan than their comparison school counterparts at two of the three study schools.

Fact 3: Charter schools are closing the achievement gap against the rest of the state and are, on average, outperforming their traditional public school counterparts according to the latest available PARCC data.

Nationally, about 50 % of charter schools perform the same as their traditional public school counterparts although the charter school student population is more selective and has fewer special education students and fewer students with English as a second language.

The study finds that charter school students outperform their district school counterparts across every sub-group, including African - Americans, Hispanics, Asians, English language learners, low - income and special education students.

Here's the latest, more profound way in which wealthier students have an advantage over lower - income ones: Those enrolled in private and suburban public high schools are being awarded higher grades — critical in the competition for college admission — than their urban public school counterparts with no less talent or potential, new research shows.

NACEP advocates having college faculty members teach professional development to their high school counterparts in the same subject area.

The «Approve R - 55» group will point to the 12 of 13 charter schools in the Chicago area where students are outperforming their traditional public school counterparts on standardized tests and have higher graduation rates.

In New York City and Newark, district educators are meeting with their charter school counterparts to share successful teaching strategies.

Primary classroom teachers worked longer hours - 59.3 hours - than their secondary school counterparts, who worked for 55.7 hours per week.

Oakland's charter schools showed even stronger growth gains compared to their non-charter school counterparts.

Students in charter schools in Massachusetts outperformed their regular public school counterparts in reading and math in the state, and students in charter schools in Boston experienced significantly higher learning gains in reading and math than students in regular public schools in the city, says a new study released by Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, or CREDO...

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

The goal of Game Change is to implement long - term anti-violence and healthy relationship education in Massachusetts schools, with a focus on developing peer leaders at the high school level who can provide trainings to their middle school counterparts.